AMSCO World History Chapter 2 (2017)

Captial of Egypt in 3100 B.C.E while King Menes was king was

How many major climate zones is Africa divided into

When Nubia fell what kingdom did it reemerge as

The Olmec developed the first writing system in the

who did not believe in reward or punishment after death

Mesopotamia means

the English word "paper" came from what plant the Egyptians used to write on

Hebrew's descendants became known as

Axum was founded on the present day

Who reunited Egypt under a central government, reducing then power of the provincial governors

The Babylonians powerful King was

What dynasty took over after the Shang dynasty

The middle kingdom ended after an invasion by the pastoral normadic people name

women in Babylonian society could be

Golden Age in China was a period of

Who was remembered for developing the alphabet script

A group of close-knit and interrelated families

Who made the lunar calender

A system by which one thing is exchanged for another

Hammurabi used taxes to

Mummified, mummifying. To make a dead body into a mummy, as by embalming and drying

Which religion today traces their religious heritage back to Abraham

The noble class began to challenge the authority of the pharaohs resulted in

What was the first Chinese musical instrument to appear during the Shang Dynasty

Who were charged first with record keeping and later with the writing of history and myths?

Who brought the first horses to India

The code of Hammurabi main p8rpose was to protect people's rights. It was build on this idea

What is monotheisim

city-state priest assigned

What is deforestation

Capital of Egypt while Mentuhotep II was king was

what percent slave were in Sumerians

the world first writing system was called

Mesopotamia was the area between

Sumerian military leader became more important than priest. What was the military ruler called

Set of laws that was one of the first to be written in stone

Huang He and Chang Jiang rivers take sits name from deposits od loess which is

One of the languages that Aryans used that is still used today is

Why were the priests the first ruler in the city-states because

Egyptians learned to grow wheat and barley from

What was the foundation or core of several advanced civilization in Mesoamerica

Around what time did the Sumerians fall to invaders

Egyptians was the first to develop__ and ___ skills to build pyramids and how the ___ ___ works

By 2700 B.C.E., the largest city, Uruk, had a population of

major trade goods for Sumerian was

What else did Sumerians produce other than food

Sumerians number system was based on what number

Who developed a calendar based on a yearthat contain 365 days and was created to tract stars

which two geographic features protected China from invasions

polytheistic means